The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1897 Page: 4 of 16
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Office, 196 Main Street, Opposite Trust Building.
DALIAS, TEXAS, JULY 1, 1897.
Look out for the oily-tongucd fusionist!
Scratch a fusionist and you find a free
silver fanatic.
The middle of the road is the safest
place. Stay in it.
Vote down the constitutional amend-
ments on August 3.
The man with the smoothest tongue is
not always the safest
Texas extends a cordial welcome to ev-
ery man who wants a home.
Populists should stand by their princi-
ples even though defeat awaits them.
Home industry clubs and economic
local government will bring prosperity.
When a man deceives you one time,
it is his fault; but if he does it the second
time, it is your fault.
Down in Kansas they took 100 pieces
of scrap iton nails, etc., out of a man's
stomach. He must have been a fusion-
ist! _
Out of the 200,000 persons who live
on Manhattan island (New York) only
170 families have any interest in the re-
alty more than as renters.
Is the Mexican vote worth so much to
the democratic party that it cannot afford
to bring a Mexican to trial when he hap-
pens to be detected in trying to swindle
the state by "raising" his voucher on the
state?
Joe H. Eagle, late populist candidate
for congress from the first congressional
district in Texas, was chosen to deliver
the oration of the day at the Nashville
Centendial Exposition. Quite an honor
this to be bestowed upon a young popu-
ljst
Prof. Uateinan, the leading populist in
jthe far east, has gotten Mr. Bryan and
his satellite Allen into an awkward pre-
dicament It has developed that the
letter of notification which was sent to
Bryan by Senator Allen had the name of
L. L Bateman, the secretary of the noti-
fication committee attached to it. Bate-
man says it is a forgery, and the forgery
lies between Bryan and Allen. Bryan
has had this letter published in the first
edition of his book, "The First Battle,"
but says he will make the correction in
the next edition. Poor explanation or
apology this! What is it that a democrat
won't resort to?
Blinkers or blinds primarily meant at-
tachments to bridles to prevent horses
from seeing anything except what is im-
mediately in front of them, but in these
degenerate days we find men wearing the
same kind of attachments. True, they
are not affixed to veritable bridles and
strapped on the head, like the old-fash-
ioned blinkers, but they are just as effec-
tive. We have political blinkers, relig-
ious blinkers, social blinkers and a host
of various other kinds of blinkers. The
most common variety is the political
blinkers.
When a man wears political blink-
ers he can see nothing except what the
bosses, who ride him, wish him to see.
He may be honest, truthful and kind, but
his political blinkers allow him to see
nothing good, practicable or feasible, un-
less it has "blown in the bottle" the
stamp of his political party. He may feel
and realize that money is scarce, prices
of products extremely low, laboring men
by the thousands searching in vain for
employment, trusts and combines squeez-
ing the very life out of industry ; his judg-
ment may dictate to him that there is a
remedy for all this, but because it is not
"nominated in the bond" which he has
placed upon himself through party affili-
tion, he heaves a sigh and declares it is
better to give the party another chance
rather than make an effort on lines not
marked out by the bosses. Like the pa-
tient ass, he munches just such wisps of
hay as his domineering dictator may
choose to grant him, and steadily pursues
his fruitless, unremitting toil.
When campaigns are on he adjusts his
blinkers at a certain angle and brays loud
and continuously in the prescribed politi-
cal key. If his owner is a free silver
democrat like Texas is cursed with, his
blinkers completely hide the pledges
made to the people and permit him to see
only our young Christian governor and
his crazy-quilt policy. The forgeries by
public officials, the stealings of the offi-
cial rings, the ballot frauds, the lynch-
ings, are all unobserved by him.
Unfortunately the blinker wearers are
not all confined to the free silver demo-
crats. There are a lot of them in the
populist party. They were fitted with
blinkers bv Butler, Allen & Co., at St
Louis last year, and since that time have
been unable to see anything wrong which
these bosses have done. They are for "fu-
sion," for "aunion of the reform forces,"
for "Bryan and free silver." Their blink-
ers completely conceal the pitfall pre-
pared by the gentleman from Arkansas
for the people's party; they are ignorant
of the danger that besets the honest work-
ers for reform. They see nothing but
evil in the plans and declarations of the
middle of the roaders, and with a zeal
born of ignorance they are contesting ev-
ery effort to separate populist sheep from
old partisan goats.
At the round-up at Nashville we trust
that the most of these blinkers will be re-
moved, and the people brought to see
conditions as they are, and remedies pro-
vided for immediate and permanent re-
lief.
This week the new board of directors
of the A. & M. College of Texas will en-
ter upon the discharge of their duties. It
is composed of W. R. Cavitt of Bryan,
Charles Rogan of Brownwood, Frank
Reichart of Houston and Frank Holland
of Dallas. The law provides that the
term of office of directors of the college
shall be six years or during good beha-
vior, hence we assume that the men who
were displaced before their term of office
expired, were guilty of something. For
what we are unable to learn. Evidently
there is politics at the bottom of it as the
men who were displaced were not in har-
mony with the political views of the gov-
ernor* while the men appointed are good
free-silver-Bryan-Culberson democrats.
LOOK OUT FOR HIM.
Ever since the call was issued for the
Nashvflle conference there has beex ap-
pearing in the press of the country de-
nunciations and abuse of those who be-
lieve a conference necessary. Now that
there is no longer any doubt about the
conference convening at the time and
place designated, these same political
prostitutes have changed their plaint, and
propose to shape the work that will come
before that body. They are crying "con-
servatism," "nothing radical," "wait
till next year before taking any positive
action" and such like wise advice. These
political pimps will find the boys who
come up from the populist recruiting
stations all over the country are not to be
caught by any such chafif. They will
find that they mean business, plain,
straight and honorable, and are not seek-
ing a Moses from the ranks of the hire-
ling crew of either of old parties.
The presumptuous heeler who goes to
the national conference at Nashville with
a cut and dried plan in his pocket will
find that the delegates to that body are
not stool pigeons, dummies or dupes.
These delegates will manufacture their
measures after they arrive on the ground.
There will be plenty of brains, bravery
and boodle-proof "boys from the forks of
the creek" to formulate into intelligent
English, a plan that will receive the un-
qualified endorsement of every true pop-
list "Representative leaders" who are
holding seats in the law-making depart-
ment of government, state or national,
will be conspicuous by their absence.
The trading, trafficking, turn-coat popu-
list who is all things to all men and noth-
ing to any one will no doubt be on hand
with his oily tongue and insinuating
graces, advocating "conservatism, cool-
ness, ¡¡deliberation and fairness." He will
not be a delegate, but he will make more
noise and show more zeal—not according
to knowledge—than a half dozen dele-
gates. He will be armed with papers,
propositions and presumption, ad nause-
am. He will generously give his time
and talents to the people if they will only
accept them. When with a fusionist, a
Butlerite, or a "conservative" he will
strenuously advocate the policy of wait-
ing till "next year" to do anything. He
will show conclusively that we have no
authority to do anything; that any deci-
ded action aFthis time will ruin the party
and deliver us again to Mark Hanna and
the McKinleyites; but when he meets a
middle of the roader he will smile bland-
ly and damn with faint praise every one
who has stood by the populist banner
and held it aloft amid the cowardly at-
tacks and secret assaults of the assassins
who bear the party, badge, but whose
hearts are as black as the smoke of To-
phet Like their slimy ancestor, who
"brought death and all its woes" to our
first parents in the garden of Eden, the'se
doubled-tongued, traitorous tramps will
hang on the skirts of the conference seek-
ing to plant their poisonous fangs in its
vitals. But for once they will be unable
to compás the defeat of honest reformers.
POPULIST DOCTRINE.
Populists believe that law makes and
unmakes money ; that the value of the
dollar has no relation whatever to the
material out of which it is made; that the
value is fixed by the number of dollars
in circulation, compared with the de-
mand by the people. Populists believe
that it is the duty of congress to provide
and, through the executive department,
keep in circulation, a suffiGient amount of
money at the least possible expense to
the people. • -
A democratic judge in Dallas last week
demanded of a witness who appeared be-
fore him that he should have a coat on
when presenting himself to the court
Has it come to this, that a common pet-
tifogging district judge shall prescribe
what a man shall wear? Possibly the
man had no coat. If he had,'what page
and chapter of the Texas statutes pre-
scribes what kind and amount of clothing
a man shall wear- A little authority
sometimes pufifs a man wonderfully. Un-
less times improve and the people get rid
of the tax-eating tyrants In Texas, we
may have to get back to the days of
breech cloats.
While the $ 1500 expert state printer is
supervising the publication of the Journal
of the twenty-fifth legislature, he should
not fail to see that the facts are published
just as they occurred. The people would
like to know who that senatorial official
was that forged a voucher on the state
treasury—what the amount of it was and
what was done about it A full account
of that sixshooter episode on the floor of
the house would be interesting, even if it
did not add anything to the dignity of
the proceedings.
A young couple in Wilbarger county,
order to emphasize their belief in the
middle of the road doctrine, had their
marriage ceremony performed in the mid-
dle of the road in front of the bride's
residence. If they will keep in mind this
principle all through life, they will attain
success.
free
Texas has invested in public
schools in the state as follows :
School houses & grounds, #6,273,478.25
School furniture, $831,603,02
Libraries and apparatus, $ 180,002,5 8
Total 57285,083,85
^The number of public free schools in
the state is 10,405. Nunber of teachers
employed, 13,217; total amount paid to
teachers the past scholastic year from
the public school fund, £3,13,854,02.
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Park, Milton. The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1897, newspaper, July 1, 1897; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185716/m1/4/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .